🎬 Volpone ou l'amour de l'or [Volpone] (1941)

Subtitles available:
🇫🇷 French🔄
🇬🇧 English
🇩🇪 German

⬇️ Download https://app.box.com/s/e2i06qbkollsf6xc5lx7meihy15rjir4

🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033229/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9us58w

#Volpone #Comedy #FrenchCinema #MauriceTourneur #ClassicFilm #TheatreAdaptation #BenJonson #1940sCinema #Drama

Just performed as Dame Kitely in a reader’s theatre production of Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson. No rehearsal, Elizabethan language, and a cast of wildly varied experience. It reminded me why I love the stage — and why Jonson is not Shakespeare.

🎭 Blog post here: Returning to the Stage: Character, Caricature, and the Curious Case of Dame Kitely https://sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/returning-to-the-stage-character-caricature-and-the-curious-case-of-dame-kitely/

#Theatre #ElizabethanDrama #BenJonson #StageLife

On Lucy, Countess of Bedford

This morning, timely rapt with holy fire,
I thought to form unto my zealous Muse
What kind of creature I could most desire,
To honour, serve, and love; as poets snooze

#MakeASongOrPoemDrowsy
#HashtagGames #BenJonson #17thCentury_Poetry

Born on this day: Ben Jonson

He looks like he could have done with some spun sugar - so here's some on his birthday cake -

"...we mun dance,
O' this day, zure: and who can dance in boots?"
(From: A Tale of a Tub)

Happy Birthday, Ben!

#botd #birthdayboy #benjonson

The only pre-modern story in which Robin Hood directly encounters the supernatural is Ben Jonson's play "The Sad Shepherd" (1641). Robin has to stop the Witch of Papplewick from using her shapeshifting and illusions to trick, rob, and torment the local shepherds.
🎨 Devin Forst

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